Tara Stoinski

They were decimated by poachers.

And he went on to become an incredibly successful male.

And I think in part, they get adopted by the silverback.

So now you've got the number one guy in the group who's making sure you have prime access to food.

He'll sleep with them at night.

And then the whole group supports you.

So this social bonding that happens in guerrilla families, which is really interesting.

It's so interesting.

No, I mean, when we've looked at it, it's very rare for males to be kind of forced out of the group.

Usually they kind of choose to leave on their own, but they will get aggression directed at him.

And maybe he was being inappropriate in other ways.

I think Mbuzu was probably also just in a heightened state of arousal.

just taken over from Geturasi.

He's trying to make sure everyone knows he's dominant.

This male is kind of on his coattails.

And so just putting him in his place, right?

And there may have been other things going on that we didn't capture that happened, you know, when we're not with the gorillas.

But my guess is it was a bit of that.

And maybe Infora was trying to take advantage of the situation and the uncertainty.

Because one of the things that was really clear to us in watching it, the group did not expect Abuzu to take over.